Ajahn Sumedho

“We suffer a lot in our society from loneliness. So much of our life is an attempt to not be lonely: ‘Let’s talk to each other; Let’s do things together so we won’t be lonely.’ And yet inevitably, we are really alone in these human forms. We can pretend; We can entertain each other, but that’s about the best we can do. When it comes to the actual experience of life, we’re very much alone, and to expect anyone else to take away our loneliness is asking too much.”